Scapegrace Timbre Small Batch Limited Release IV /46%/ 0.7l

Scapegrace Distilling Company was founded in 2014 by two amateur musicians from New Zealand (brothers-in-law), Mark Neal and Daniel McLaughlin.

The company was originally called Rogue Society Distilling and produced gin; in 2017, it changed its name because it overlapped with the name of the brewery in Newport. The company is currently building a new distillery, which should be operational in the fall of 2023. A year earlier, in October, it debuted Scapegrace single malt whisky. It was distilled at a contract distillery based on the South Island from locally grown Laureate barley and water flowing down from the New Zealand Alps. The Timbre IV presented here was aged in Bulgarian oak barrels for three years, and the edition consisted of 2,274 bottles.

Nose : red apples, plums, orange peel, vanilla, toffee, sponge cake, black tea, notes of potpourri and toasted oak.

Palate: milk chocolate, cappuccino, cherries, toast with apricot jam, baked apples, milk fudge, caramel, coconut flakes and oak.

Finish: medium long, with notes of milk fudge, vanilla, orchard fruit, cinnamon, cloves and oak tannins.